Anne Fuller

Anne Fuller (died 1790) was an Irish novelist in the Gothic genre. She was one of the earliest women writers of Gothic fiction.^[1]

Anne Fuller
Died	1790 County Cork
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Irish
Genre	Gothic novels

Life and work

Anne Fuller was the daughter of William Fuller and Jane Harnett of West Kerries, Tralee, County Kerry. Very little is known about her life except that she never married. She wrote three novels in the gothic style which were reprinted several times.^[1] She died of consumption in 1790 near Cork.^[2][3][4]

Since women readers of novels with supernatural characters and situations were considered "liable to many errors, both in conduct and conversation"^[5] and writers were even more confined, writers like Fuller often published anonymously. Fuller reportedly published her work Alan Fitz-Osbourne anonymously.^[6]

She was one of the "lost" women writers listed by Dale Spender in Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. Her work has since been reviewed as an insight into the early novelists and women writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.^[7] She is sometimes considered one of the key Irish authors in the development of gothic fiction along with Regina Maria Roche, Anne Burke, Mrs F. C. Patrick, Anna Millikin, Catharine Selden, Marianne Kenley, and Sydney Owenson (later Lady Morgan).^[8][9][10] Her writing itself, in contrast, Baker in 1924 described as 'mediocre'.^[11][12]

Bibliography

• The Convent; or, The History of Sophia Nelson, Anne Fuller, London: T. Wilkins, 1786
• Alan Fitz-Osborne, an Historical Tale. 2 vols. Anne Fuller, Dublin: P. Byrne, 1787.
• The Son of Ethelwolf: An Historical Tale. 2 vols. Anne Fuller, London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789.

Further reading

• Dublin Chronicle 25 Sept 1790
• Gentleman's Magazine July 1790

References

1. John Wilson Foster (14 December 2006). The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel. Cambridge University Press. pp. 40, 80. ISBN 978-0-521-67996-1.
2. DeBurca Rare Books Catalogue 114. 11 November 2014.
3. Lorna Sage; Germaine Greer; Elaine Showalter (1999). The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 30 Sep 1999 - 696 pages. ISBN 9780521495257.
4. Angela Bourke. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume 5. NYU Press, 2002 - 3201 pages.
5. Clery, Emma; Clery, E. J.; Clery, Research Fellow in English Emma (16 February 1995). The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45316-5.
6. Anne Bannerman; Sarah Pearson; Barbara Hoole. FEMALE GOTHIC POETRY IN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND OF THE 1800S (PDF). Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, University of Ghent.
7. Eugenia C. DeLamotte Visiting Associate Professor in Women's Studies Duke University (22 February 1990). Perils of the Night : A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 164–5. ISBN 978-0-19-536346-3.
8. Rolf Loeber; Magda Stouthame-Loeber (2003). "The Publication of Irish Novels and Novelettes, 1750–1829,A Footnote on Irish Gothic Fiction". Romantic Textualities. June (10).
9. William Hughes; David Punter; Andrew Smith (21 December 2015). The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. John Wiley & Sons. p. 357. ISBN 978-1-119-06460-2.
10. The Harp and the Constitution: Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin. BRILL. 16 November 2015. pp. 107–8. ISBN 978-90-04-30638-7.
11. Ernest A. Baker (1924). The History of the English Novel. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 186. GGKEY:2FLJ1561ZZH.
12. Jarlath Killeen (2014). The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction: History, Origins, Theories. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 70, 126, 171. ISBN 978-0-7486-9080-0.

External links

• The Formation of a Genre, Anne H. Stevens :British Historical Fiction before Scott, Part of the series Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print pp 1-20
• THE SEARCH FOR THE ANGLO-SAXON ORAL POET ROBERTA FRANK DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
• Forgotten fiction: reconsidering the Gothic Novel in eighteenth-century Ireland
• Austin and the gothic writers like Fuller
• Loving and Sly Parodies: the gothic and anti-gothic: Atwood’s Lady Oracle & Fuller’s The Convent